Bob Mccollister

Today’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune. 👀

No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.

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The Barn and Warmth of Other Suns

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Combine this story with the layoffs at CBS this week and you see the pattern. Trump and his ally Larry Ellison now control CBS, and soon Tik Tok. CNN may soon follow. This is the Orban model brought to America.

"The Two Battles" -- My TED Talk and Whiteboard on Democracy The Most Important Lesson from New Book--The Foundation for Everything Else

Take it from an old coach. You can't win if you don't go on offense. So much of the Trump assault on democracy (ie. Texas), and Project 2025 is being channeled through Statehouses. Thanks David Pepper. It's time to go on offense! open.substack.com/pub/davidpep...

The Looming, Lawless Ohio Gerrymander A Rigged Map, Only Possible Due to Serial Lawbreaking and Gaslighting

The Ohio legislature once again following the Viktor Orban model of how to destroy democracy. Or is it Orban following the Ohio model?
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My wife and I are retired teachers. Every retired and currently serving teacher should watch and share this video. Ohio's corrupt government, dominated by its gerrymandered legislature has seized control of STRS! Infuriating!, but there is still hope if we act together!

No Kings Day protest in little Ironton, Ohio. 175 people at its peak!

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:

“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

Reminder: Joni Ernst is up for reelection

The renewable revolution will be a powerful driver of economic growth in this century. Repealing the IRA would be a historic mistake.

Don’t Look at Stock Markets. Look at the Ports. A drop in maritime traffic suggests that the worst is yet to come.

www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Red line graph time series of monthly carbon dioxide abundance from January 1959 through April 2025. There is a seasonal cycle and long-term increasing trend. Current levels of CO2 are at 430 ppm. This is the Keeling Curve graph. A line for CO2 10 years ago is also annotated.

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged nearly 430 ppm in April 2025 (new record high)

10 years ago April averaged about 404 ppm. Preliminary data from gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...

This isn't going away. The longer we wait to address climate change, the greater the impacts and the harder it becomes to solve

Tensions mount in South Asia as a terrorist attack could ignite a fifth war between India and Pakistan. open.substack.com/pub/joecirin...

Some times you just get lucky. On that night in October 2017 I did. David Pepper and the entire Ohio Dem. Party gave me tremendous support, but most of all I made a great friend. The message is absolutely true. We need to build a team with a great bench. Take it from me, I know about team building!

Trump Draft Order Would Drastically Overhaul U.S. State Department (Gift Article) The draft executive order that could be signed by President Trump would eliminate Africa operations and shut down bureaus working on democracy, human rights and refugee issues.

Read the fine print. Turning State into fully Nationalist dept.

So much fascism..

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

This Is Why Dictatorships Fail The authors of the Constitution separated powers for a reason.

"No one, apparently, is willing to prevent a single man from destroying the world economy, wrecking financial markets, forcing this country and other countries into recession if that’s what he feels like doing when he gets up tomorrow morning"

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Please watch, and call your Representative and Senators. The SAVE Act is a 21st Century Poll tax. Its is an attempt to rig elections, just as was done in the Jim Crow era.

Tweet from Donald J. Trump dated November 6, 2012 at 12:01PM that reads, "If the Dow drops 1,000 points in two days the President should be impeached immediately!"

Sadly evergreen.

This of course mirrors a standard Putin talking point.
From The #NewClimateWar (www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/micha...)

DOGE advisor & tech billionaire Marc Andreessen funds New Founding (per Forbes) & QT’d this post by Logan Clark Hall, who was employed by New Founding as of 2022. Andreessen spoke to the Rockbridge Network—backed by Thiel & Mercer—last year. 1/ #FollowTheMoney